Q 01/05

Which Swedish statistician called the washing machine the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution?

A) Hans Rosling

B) Svante Arrhenius

C) Anders Celsius

D) Gunnar Myrdal

Answer · why

A) Hans Rosling

He argued its impact on the liberation of women outweighed every other invention.

Q 02/05

In which country was Jacob Christian Schäffer's washing machine design published in 1767?

A) England

B) Netherlands

C) France

D) Germany

Answer · why

D) Germany

He was a clergyman and naturalist from Regensburg.

Q 03/05

Who received a British patent for a rotating drum washer in 1782?

A) Richard Arkwright

B) James Watt

C) Edward Beetham

D) Henry Sidgier

Answer · why

D) Henry Sidgier

Edward Beetham sold numerous patent washing mills in England in the 1790s.

Q 04/05

Who was granted the first US patent titled Clothes Washing, in 1797?

A) Nathaniel Briggs

B) Oliver Evans

C) Jacob Perkins

D) Eli Whitney

Answer · why

A) Nathaniel Briggs

He was from New Hampshire.

Q 05/05

Which Canadian patented a Clothes Washer With Wringer Rolls in 1843?

A) Sandford Fleming

B) John E. Turnbull

C) Thomas Ahearn

D) Alexander Graham Bell

Answer · why

B) John E. Turnbull

He worked in Saint John, New Brunswick.